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Module Name
Module Code
Lecture Hrs
Practical Hrs
Credits
Toxicology, Nutrition and Food
BIOS3030Y(5)
75
30
6

Description
The topics covered are: the role of foods, herbals and nutraceuticals as sources of antinutrients, natural toxins and environmental contaminants; the impact of toxic exposures on nutritional status; the impact of nutritional status on safe metabolism of toxins, and the use of this knowledge in the design of functional foods; assessing the risk of genetically modified foods and radioactive contamination of a food supply.
Faculty Department
FACULTY OF SCIENCE Department of Biosciences & Ocean Studies
Contact Details
Administrative assistant: RAINA FERHANA HOSSENBUX
Telephone: 4037400
Email: r.hossenbux@uom.ac.mu
 

 


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